ARMY & NAVY: Ships & Savings

ARMY & NAVY

With the Navy League growling behind him and jingoes in Congress snarling ahead, President Hoover last week whipped his Navy budget into final shape. Its total: $343,000,000. (This year's expenditure: $360,000,000.) Secretary Adams had first carried to the White House naval estimates totaling $401,000,000. Where and how the President proposed to effect $17,000,000 economies remained a secret which, as a matter of governmental courtesy, he had to save for Congress next month.

President Hoover had been swamped with economy suggestions. The Navy's proposal to lay up the U. S. S....

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